Molluscs emergent, Part II: themes and trends in the scientific investigation of molluscs and their shells as past human resources

KD Thomas - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent work in three major research themes involving molluscs is reviewed: 1. molluscs in
past human diets and subsistence systems, sclerochemistry and seasonality studies on …

Middle Holocene residential mobility in western Santa Rosa Island, California

CS Jazwa, A Zoellner - Quaternary International, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The middle Holocene (8200-4200 cal BP) on California's northern Channel Islands
(NCI) was a period of important population change, including the elaboration of settlement …

Central place foraging and shellfish processing on California's Northern Channel Islands

CS Jazwa, TJ Braje, JM Erlandson… - Journal of Anthropological …, 2015 - Elsevier
We use a central place forager model for shellfish processing to understand Middle
Holocene (7550–3600 cal BP) human settlement patterns on California's Northern Channel …

Shellfish exploitation in the western Canary Islands over the last two millennia

W Parker, Y Yanes, E Mesa Hernández… - Environmental …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The residents of the Canary Archipelago consumed limpets since the arrival of humans∼
2500 yrs. ago, and these harvested gastropods were deposited in large coastal shell …

Making the most of fragments: a method for estimating shell length from fragmentary mussels (Mytilus californianus and Mytilus trossulus) on the Pacific Coast of North …

GG Singh, I McKechnie - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2015 - Elsevier
California mussel (Mytilus californianus) are ubiquitous shellfish species in coastal
archaeological sites throughout western North America but are often highly fragmentary …

A dual bivalve approach for interpreting past sea surface temperatures and seasonality from shell midden sites using oxygen isotope sclerochronology

SD Kuehn, M Burchell, N Leclerc - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2025 - Elsevier
Stable oxygen isotope (δ 18 O) analysis of archaeological shellfish remains combined with
sclerochronology can be used to precisely reconstruct past sea surface temperature (pSST) …

[KNIHA][B] A dynamic ecological model for human settlement on California's northern Channel Islands

CS Jazwa - 2015 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Settlement on California's Northern Channel Islands can be described using two
behavioral ecology models, the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) and the Ideal Despotic …

Shellfish, geophytes, and sedentism on Early Holocene Santa Rosa Island, Alta California, USA

JM Erlandson, TC Rick, AF Ainis, KM Gill… - The Journal of Island …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Archaeobotanical remains recovered from a large∼ 8000-year-old-shell midden (CA-SRI-
666) on Santa Rosa Island provide the first ancient plant data from this large island …

[KNIHA][B] Of molluscs and middens: Historical ecology of indigenous shoreline stewardship along the central coast of California

MA Grone - 2020 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation presents three cases studies on the archaeology and Historical Ecology of
Indigenous shoreline management practices on the Central Coast of California. These …

The effects of vertical position in the intertidal zone on the δ18O and δ13C composition of Mytilus californianus shell carbonate

CS Jazwa, CA Wolfe, EY Chu, KE Stull - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Stable oxygen (δ 18 O) isotopic measurements of marine shell carbonate are useful proxies
for reconstructing past marine conditions on time scales that are relevant for archaeological …